Cardinal Motor Speedway results, 7/31/04

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Results from Cardinal Motor Speedway - Saturday, July 31, 2004

 

Gray checks out at Cardinal

by James White

 

EUNICE, N.M. -- Nineteen IMCA Modifieds on hand for a perfect Saturday night of racing action #10 Shane Gray and #5 Billy Johnson bring the field to green with #10 Gray having the advantage into turn 3 over #5 Johnson , but a tangle in turn 1, between #53 J.D. White, #16 Bob Sikes, and #17m Roy Don Mason brought out a red and a restart. #17m and #53 had to retire moving some drivers up in the line up for the restart.

 

On the first restart #5 Billy Johnson didn't have as smooth a start as the first try , he spun in turn one causing a domino effect on the rest of the field that collected #21 Jimmy Breeding and #101 Bradley Smith, Smith was able to continue but damage to #21 Jimmy Breeding was too severe to race. The field will be restarted one more time.

 

The second restart had #5 Billy Johnson at the end of the field, which moved #101 Butch Reid to the front, with #10 Shane Gray holding the pole position. Yet out of turn four on this go around the #8 Ken Couch and #16 Bob Sikes collided to bring out yet another red flag. The damage to Couch was too much to continue while #16 Sikes was able to get back in line.

 

The third restart went off with a good clean lap and the race was underway. #10 Shane Gray took the lead and left #101 Butch Reid and #86 Brian flowers to duke it out for second. By lap 10 #101 Butch Reid had to leave the track with mechanical problems ,and the #16 Bob Sikes had taken the second position from Brian Flowers, and slower cars were beginning to be lapped. #10 Shane Gray was walking away with this feature while #85 Neal Flowers and #44 Trent Crawford were moving up to get into the top four.

 

RESULTS

 

IMCA Modifieds

 

1.#10 Shane Gray (Artiesia, N.M.)

2.#16 Bob Sikes (Eunice, N.M.)

3.#85 Neal Flowers (Hobbs, N.M.)

4.#44 Trent Crawford (Odessa, Tx.)

5.#86 Brian Flowers (Hobbs, N.M.)

6.#5 Billy Johnson (Carlsbad, N.M.)

 

IMCA Stock cars had 12 cars in the field tonight, with #64 Cary White and #97 Buck Dempsey heading up the field. #64 Cary White took the early advantage to lead the for the opening laps while #97 Buck Dempsey had to hold off the charging #20 Cody Kays. #8 Dustin Locke and #16 Bubba Sikes were on the move to the front , #16 Bubba Sikes had moved into the second spot and was catching the leader quickly, but on lap 12 went into turn one too hard and lost control and took a wild ride into the infield bouncing

hard off the inside dirt mounds, causing damage that ended his night.

 

The race continued under yellow, and found #64 Cary White back in the second spot, with #97 Buck Dempsey hanging onto third. #9 Justin Graves was moving up to the front quickly, and passed the #8 Locke and the #97 Dempsey in the closing laps to get into the top three for the night.

 

IMCA Stock Cars

1.#20 Cody Kays (Eunice, N.M)

2.#64 Cary White (Hobbs, N.M.)

3.#9 Justin Graves (Odessa, Tx.)

4.#97 Buck Dempsey( Midland, Tx.)

5#8 Dustin Locke (Eunice, N.M.)

6.#65 Eric Jarrel ( Hobbs, N.M)

 

IMCA Hobby Stock

1.#16 Triston Sikes

2.#15 Timothy Kent

3.#71 James Newton

4.#4 Josh Pickerel

5.#64 Doug Cox

6.#44 Jerry Harper

 

Street Stock

1.#08 Kenneth Seay

2.#37 Mack Seay

3.#64 Don Phillips

4.#71 Jay McClearen

5.#41 Eddie Traywick

6.#8 Russell Lee

 

Pro-4

1.#46 John Anderson

2.#3 Steve Huse

3.#68 Jason Allen

4.#7 James White

5.#53 Danny Lam

6.75 Bob Eshelman

 

Stock -4

1.#49 Brandon Gage

2.#17 Zachary Mason

3.#171 Terry Dossey

4.#5 Cody Hodges

5.#0 James Cathey

6.#1 ?